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| Thanks, Mike, for the expanded information. The advantage of a comma or
tab-delimited format is that they are not proprietary formats, so, it's much
easier to interface with other software/frameworks.
And yes, the idea should always be to automate the process as much as
possible. Minimizes cost while maximizing efficiency.
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Irvin
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"Mike Nolan" <nolan@gw.tssi.com> wrote in message
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> "irvin" <noone@none.com> writes:
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> Check out the USCF's TD/Affiliate Support Area, this is not only
> possible, it is already happening, along with processing memberships in
> a matter of minutes. However, at this time the only file format that
> is supported is to upload the three .DBF files that WinTD and Swis-Sys
> prepare for diskette submission, along with a crosstable text file.
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> TDs can also enter events online.
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> Will it eventually support other upload formats? That's certainly
> possible, though there's kind of a chicken-and-egg issue with regards
> to file formats. Right now WinTD and Swis-Sys can prepare the .DBF
> files, so that's why that format was the first one implemented.
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> Does anyone have a program capable of creating comma (CSV) or
> tab-delimited
> rating report files yet, or one that could be readily adapted to do so?
> If so, I'd like to hear from the developer and set up a test suite, as
> it shouldn't take a lot of programming to support another upload format.
> But until someone can create test data, there's little reason to do that
> programming.
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> I agree with you that for the most part it should be possible to rate
> events with little or no staff intervention.
>
> For more details, go to https://secure.uschess.org/TD_Affil
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> Mike Nolan
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